Publishing

“Meininger’s International” was developed by the Online Team, with my contribution limited to adapting an existing theme, some theming, and some minor module coding.

The MIXOLOGY Bar Awards are held annually to celebrate excellence in the bar and cocktail scene across German-speaking Europe. They recognize the most innovative and influential bars, bartenders, and industry professionals who are shaping modern bar culture through creativity, hospitality, and craftsmanship.

The "Made in GSA" Competition is a prestigious annual cocktail contest celebrating regional spirits and ingredients from Germany, Switzerland, and Austria—hence the acronym "GSA." Organized by Mixology magazine, it’s the largest independent cocktail competition in Central Europe.  It’s a platform for bartenders to showcase their craft using local ingredients, with a strong focus on storytelling and drink experience.

The site is dedicated to bar culture. It’s a vibrant hub for bartenders, cocktail enthusiasts, and industry professionals, offering deep dives into spirits, cocktail recipes, bar trends, and the people shaping the scene.

Founded in 2003, Mixology has grown from a niche magazine into a full-fledged platform. The site also hosts the prestigious Mixology Bar Awards—often dubbed the “Oscars of the bar world”—and organizes the Made in GSA Competition, a cocktail contest spotlighting regional ingredients.

Get-In Kongress Website:  Drupal development and theming for a multi-day beverage industry conference

The “Get-In Kongress” is a multi-day event hosted by Meininger Verlag, bringing together key players in the beverage industry. The website serves as a central hub, showcasing the event program, speaker lineup, and a live blog during the conference.

A Drupal based social-networking site for a book-publisher, which features an online course and learning system. Special modules had to be developed that allows users to answer course-questions, and have a circle of trusted advisers review and rate their answers.

• Configuration, theming, custom modules, content.
• Module development:
• E-course with social network integration.
• Security: Only special classes of friends can view and comment on course answers.
• Social networking:  friends and advisors; invites; private messages.

Subcontractor for an agency which develops this site, at the time in Drupal 6.

Online Edition of a very large Swiss magazine, with 100K+ pages.   This was an extremely large existing website, maintained by another agency, for which I subcontracted. I implemented various new functionality:

The customer provided this very nice design and concept, and asked me to implement it on the basis of Drupal.

It is fully responsive, and features a very fancy scroll effect in desktop mode.  There are a handful of sites in the world with a similar effect but this is only one that is responsive.

I did the whole theming and custom programming for PHP and JavaScript.  A special solution to create several “one-page” screens had to be found.

This very large site and its content is mostly build and maintained by their Meininger’s internal IT team, which I have been supporting for more many years.  I help whenever it gets too complicated, such as, I do all custom programming  on the E-Commerce System and payment processes,  as well as the theming